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Jess Booshain 👻

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Associate professor, mom, triathlete, dog person, Swiftie. US foreign policy, civil-military relations, & bureaucratic politics. Personal views only. Posts before 9/23/23 are imports from the other place.

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 2d

Furlough Day 4 (we're not counting weekends) soccer snacks

A kitchen counter with a white ghost shaped snackle box filled with fruit, cheese, pirates booty, harvest peas, and chocolate oat bars. The transparent ghost face lid hangs off the side.

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 2d

And also: bsky.app/profile/stev...

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s the longer version of this thread:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/181-courts...

181. Courts and Domestic Use of the Military

In response to adverse judicial rulings, the President's advisers and supporters are claiming courts lack the power to halt domestic use of the military. A critical early precedent is to the contrary.

www.stevevladeck.com

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 2d

See also:

The U.S. president has broad discretion on military matters.

The president-elect's proposed uses of the military on U.S. soil could draw the armed forces into partisan disputes.

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 2d

I'm seeing a) assertions that no one has been thinking about the issues raised by these NG deployments and b) confident assertions about complicated legal issues. So a friendly reminder that we do have experts on domestic use of the U.S. military, and even they don't have clear answers! ⬇️

Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 2d

Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon

Judge asked federal government lawyer: 'Do you believe this is an appropriate way to deal with a judge’s order that you disagree with?'

www.oregonlive.com

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 4d

Has TLOAS made anyone else want to rewatch Bunheads or just me?

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 4d

After a dozen times through TLOAS, Spotify has finally given up and started looping the album instead of trying to auto play a different Taylor song at the end

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 4d

My current annoyance is that the tracks can all sound the same or not be coherent but they can't be both!

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 5d

In my mind "keep it 💯 on the land, the sea, the sky" is an ode to Goldwater-Nichols

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 5d

I truly was not expecting to like this album this much on first listen. I love Taylor but I also hate change.

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 5d

Also it's such a relief to only have 12 songs to learn

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 5d

I truly was not expecting to like this album this much on first listen. I love Taylor but I also hate change.

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 6d

So nice of Congress to look out for the Swiftie feds with the shutdown timing!

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 6d

I might need a nap first but yes! I probably would have even if I had work in the morning but will have fewer regrets now. You?

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 6d

Furlough Day 2

A shelf with LEGO interactive Mario, Luigi, and Peach sets

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 6d

By the time shutdown ends I will be 80% pumpkin spice

A large container of pumpkin pie spice coffee creamer and a black coffee mug with a bat face in front of a coffee maker and mug tree

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 7d

Now I feel weirdly compelled to go try one from the giant Halloween KitKat variety pack in my pantry

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 7d

Please applaud my restraint in not setting my voicemail to "I'm sorry, the old Jess can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, 'cause she's furloughed!"

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 8d

If you're looking for a Halloween book for young toddlers I highly recommend Eek! Halloween! by Sandra Boynton (or as my toddler calls it, "bawk bawk bawk")

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 15d

Me, trying to make Instant Pot pasta after having not cooked dinner in approximately 7 years

a video game is being played on a wooden floor with a hamburger on a plate

Alt: A clip from the video game overcooked where cartoon chefs run around a kitchen carrying ingredients while pots spew flames on multiple stoves

media.tenor.com

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · Sep 6

Need to keep your kids busy for a few minutes so you can dissociate in peace? I highly recommend a sticker scavenger hunt.

Close up of a child's hands checking a box next to one of six paw patrol stickers on a green sheet of paper

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · Sep 4

I was thinking "Supreme Allied Commander of Swifties"

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · Sep 4

Very curious what this will mean in practice re: websites, signage, etc.

Also brainstorming my own "secondary title" ...

Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · Sep 4

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order tomorrow giving the Defense Department a "secondary title" as the Department of War. White House officials now confirming.

Looks like a way to use the title while juggling the law -- the 1947 National Security Act -- that gave DoD its name.

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · Sep 4

I have long thought it was silly to have both a Department of Defense and a Department of Homeland Security. Monkey's paw strikes again.

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · Sep 4

Did my first morning bus stop duty of the school year and I was NOT still in pajamas! But I was eating yogurt and granola straight out of the Kirkland yogurt tub. So grateful kid 1 is not yet aware enough to be embarrassed by me.

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Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · Sep 3

It does make walking feel like more of a work out, but it also seems to aggravate the same overuse injuries running does, so it's been a mixed bag for me

Jess Booshain 👻 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's put the LED vest over the weighted vest to get a walk in kind of night

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